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was applied to them by the Malays. The general appearance, 

 habitations, dress, manufactures, and mode of life of the Senoi 

 have been so frequently described that I think it unnecessary 

 to record at length any observations on these matters, unless 

 I believe them to be new or at variance with the accounts of 

 other observers. 



Face painting was seen on several of the women, the 

 pigment being obtained from charcoal, or the face was marked 

 with saliva coloured by sireh chewing. 



Tattooing w^as observed on only three individuals. One 

 of these had a design over the right breast, which apparently 

 was meant to represent some kind of animal, but he informed 

 me that it had been done by a Chinaman. Of the other two, 

 one had a series of vertical lines tattooed on the forehead, and 

 the other a single line reaching from the top of the forehead 

 to the tip of the nose. Both these men told me that tattooing 

 had been known to their ancestors for many generations and 

 they further got for me some thorns of the " rotan dudok," the 

 implements with which they said the colouring matter, 

 charcoal, was pricked in. I handled the heads of both my 

 ■t informants, so, in addition to the information ^ey gave me 

 ' there was no pos=:ibility of my mistaking face painting for 



tattooing. In the case of the man with the single line down 

 the nose, a good deal of colouring matter seemed to have been 

 forced in, as the skin over the markings was slightly raised 

 above the level of the adjacent parts. Several of the men who 



■ came from up-country had the septum of the nose bored for a 

 nose stick, (PI. XXVI) and ear-boring for the insertion of 

 small Malay-pattern ear-studs or large bamboo ear-plugs was 

 universal among the women. Unfinished cigarette ends were 

 often carried in these holes in the ear-bole, or were placed 

 behind the ear. Both men and women have the front teeth 

 in the upper and lower jaws filed down. With regard to the 

 blow-pipes of the Sungkai people, a long and short variety 

 were seen, and long and short darts were used in them 

 accordingly. The measurement for a long dart is from the 

 point of the elbow to the tip of the little finger, and for a short 

 one from the point of the elbow to the wrist. Two types of 

 dart quiver were seen, one with a large, hard, round and 

 almost flat coyer of finely shredded and closely woven rattan 

 cane, the other with the soft bag-like cover of plaited pandanus 

 leaf, which is typical of the Central Sakai. I was told that 

 the rattan covers were made by the men, and those of 

 pandanus by the women. 



The only clothing worn by most of the men from up- 

 country was a simple T bandage of terap bark-cloth, which was 

 often so small that it did not suffice to properly cover the 

 genitals. Remarks On the scantiness of the loin-cloth among 

 the Central-Sakai have however already been made in the 

 "Fasciculi Malayenses" of Messrs. Annandale and Robinson. 

 All the Senoi I met were able to talk fluent Malay, though 

 some of them spoke with a harsh and jerky intonation. 



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